Film Review: Slack Bay (2016)
bySlack Bay (Ma Loute) is very difficult to categorise or to explain. Is it a period farce? Or an Agatha Christie style murder mystery?…
Current Theatrical Releases
Film Review: Sami Blood (2016)
byThe first feature film by writer-director Amanda Kernell raises subject matter that should be more than a little familiar to Australians. This Swedish director’s…
Film Review: Ferdinand (2017)
byAll credit to 20th Century Fox. Any studio that opens an animated film on the same day as the new Star Wars is either…
Film Review: Downsizing (2017)
byAt the beginning of Downsizing, we’re asked to imagine two things. The first is that world is on the brink of ecological disaster and…
Film Review: Just to be Sure (2017)
byJust to be Sure (Ôtez-moi d’un Doute) is charming and funny, and perfectly timed for the holiday season. Erwan (François Damiens) is a bomb tester…
Film Review: The Florida Project (2017)
byFor many of us, childhood is the most wonderful of times. It’s when our curiosity peaks, when our uninhibitedness leads us to forge countless…
Film Review: In this Corner of the World (2016)
byHayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli has experienced so much success that, in the public mind, it has utterly co-opted the Japanese cinematic ‘anime’ landscape. When…
Film Review: Wonder Wheel (2017)
byStraight out of the swingin’ fifties is Woody Allen’s latest romantic drama Wonder Wheel. It captures the mood, lights and the hopeless romance all rolled up…
Film Review: Sweet Virginia (2017)
byIn Sweet Virginia, director Jamie M. Dagg explores the intersecting lives of several people in a small town, and the ways in which these…
Film Review: Wonder (2017)
byBased on the novel of the same name by R.J. Palacio, Wonder focuses on Auggie Pullman (Jacob Tremblay), a fifth-grader going to school for…